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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Revoke \Re*voke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Revoked};p. pr & vb n.
{Revoking}.] [F. r['e]voquer, L. revocare; pref. re- re- +
vocare to call fr vox, vocis, voice. See {Voice}, and cf
{Revocate}.]
1. To call or bring back to recall. [Obs.]
The faint sprite he did revoke again To her frail
mansion of morality. --Spenser.
2. Hence to annul, by recalling or taking back to repeal;
to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by
a special act as,, to revoke a will a license, a grant,
a permission, a law, or the like --Shak.
3. To hold back to repress; to restrain. [Obs.]
[She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke.
--Spenser.
4. To draw back to withdraw. [Obs.] --Spenser.
5. To call back to mind; to recollect. [Obs.]
A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself
former passages, will be still apt to inculcate
these sad memoris to his conscience. --South.
Syn: To abolish; recall; repeal; rescind; countermand; annul;
abrogate; cancel; reverse. See {Abolish}.
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